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THE SPEED OF LIGHT IN AIR, WATER, AND GLASS (2018); AMERICAN ARCADIA (2023). Shorter work in your fav lit mags around town. Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. -CM
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That’s a hat trick!

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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

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The program is set for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on 4/12/25 and there's something for everyone: craft workshops & panels on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, writing life (and how to manage it in All This Bullshit). Hope to see you there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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💌

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A lot of the destruction is happening in places most people are not aware even exist & the destroyers are counting on that. Making that known, doing what is asked, is excellent resistance.

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Seamus Heaney “The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.”

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When he mocked a disabled reporter or bragged about sexual assault these aspects of his low character were not seen as road signs. But they were, my friend, they were. No pity now. None.

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“I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.” Nina Simone by Jack Robinson / Getty Images #BlackHistory

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Not sure why this made me tear up with joy. At the risk of sounding like a child, Thank you, Earth.

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“And while we're on the subject of fire, let's burn this bridge together, shall we?”

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Fuck you, Marco Rubio

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NO

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 3 days ago • 503 comments

And now, a short treatise on reviews . . .

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This frightening legislation coming out of IA, AR, here in OH, and elsewhere...it's enough to make you lose hope. Threats to imprison librarians, changing the definition of obscenity to mean anything LGBT, attacking BIPOC stories and the freedom to read. Pay attention to your local legislation 💙📚

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people in ukraine have been fighting and dying and living with constant bombing raids for the better part of 2 years and here in america voters throw an epic tantrum and basically toss aside generations of hard-won reform because the think the guy who chauffeurs their taco bell order is overpaid

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This is so beyond evil that I don’t even have the words

submitted 4 days ago • 149 comments

jesus christ, fuck you, man

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I come from a long line High and low and in between Same as you Hills of golden Hails of poison Time's thrown me through And I believe I've come to learn That turnin' round Is to become confusion Spin #1 today is Townes:

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Absolutely fuck this.

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Today we remember Alexei Navalnay, leader of the Russian opposition, who was found dead in his prison cell in Siberia one year ago today. I stand in solidarity with his widow Yulia Navalnay, the first lady of Russian opposition.

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Rob Roy’s grave

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